Queen Elizabeth Is All Smiles as She Boards Train Back to London

Just one day after marking her Sapphire Jubilee — which makes her the first British monarch to reach 65 years on the throne — the Queen boarded a train at King’s Lynn station in Norfolk on Tuesday.

Looking cheerful in a bright lime green coat and colorful scarf, the Queen appeared fully recovered from the heavy cold that forced her to miss her annual public train ride to Sandringham in December.

The Queen has seemed in good spirits over the past couple weeks. In January, she took tea with friends during her annual low-key visit to her local Women’s Institute in Norfolk. And she was seen heading to church on a few occasions, easing fears for her health.

She also had a fun run-in with a bare-chested Fijian warrior during her first public engagement of 2017 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.

On Monday, Buckingham Palace celebrated the Queen’s 65-year milestone by re-releasing a portrait taken by British photographer David Bailey where the monarch is wearing a suite of sapphire jewels she received as a wedding day gift from her father, King George VI, in 1947.

She spent the day privately at Sandringham with the minimum of fuss as it’s a day tinged with poignancy as it’s also the anniversary of the death of her father.